Category: Spitfire
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Another High Flyer
Spitfire HF VII, MD114/DUoG, No 312 (Czechoslovak) Squadron, RAF, Skeabrae, 1943. I hadn’t yet built a Hasegawa Spitfire, and since I didn’t yet have a Mk VII on my shelf decided I’d do this one. The Subject I’ve come to understand that frontline squadrons would rotate on occasion to airfields in the North and East,…
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South African Spitifire
Spitfire Vc(T), No. 2 Squadron SAAF, Palata, Italy, 1944 I like the Vc as it affords the most unique paint schemes of all Spitfire marks; and appears to have been used by more countries during the war than any other single variant. This one I particularly like because No. 2 Squadron was likely the only…
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V-1 Defender
Spitfire XIV RB159 / DW-D 610 Squadron RAF, Spring 1944 I tried kit bashing, something I have done rarely and only with the Spitfire, to make a XIVc from the Airfix IX and XIX kits. The Subject The XIV began showing up in squadrons late 1943 and early 1944. Initially they were used to replace…